FSML: Winterization of Faculty and Student Residences at Mountain Lake Biological Station

FSML：山湖生物站教职员工和学生宿舍的防冻

• 批准号: 0731423
• 负责人: Edmund Brodie
• 金额: $ 24.99万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-12-01 至 2011-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0731423&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Winterization; Faculty; Student; Residences

Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS) was founded in 1929 by the University of Virginia (UVA) as an inland field station for research and teaching in the Southern Appalachians. In the last quarter century the station's research program has developed a focus in field based population studies with emphases in evolution, ecological genetics, population and community ecology, behavioral physiology, and conservation. MLBS is a full service residential facility that offers the full range of scientific, instructional, and communications support expected at a modern field station. The station averages near 7,000 user days per year. Typical users are in residence, often with families, for a few weeks up to three months at a time. Summer-season capacity tops out at 100 residents ranging from small children to high school students to course and research undergraduates, to distinguished research faculty. All members of the community work, eat, and live together everyday, integrating research and mentorship in the truest sense of a Jeffersonian "academical village". MLBS operates receives many usage requests for the spring and fall that cannot be accommodated due to the absence of winterized housing for researchers, families and visiting groups of all sizes. New investments by the University in 12-month staff and expanded services will provide much of the infrastructure necessary to allow MLBS to provide year-round service. A critical factor still limiting the station's ability to provide non-summer services is a lack of winterized housing. Housing improvements from this award will contribute to both the research and instructional mission of the field station. The proposed work will improve the physical infrastructure of MLBS allowing it to broaden its mission in both time and target. Group use space will allow MLBS to pursue new outreach programs and serve visiting classes and groups. Winterized and improved researcher space will enable it to attract and retain more and more diverse PIs.

山湖生物站（MLBS）于1929年由弗吉尼亚大学（UVA）成立，作为阿巴拉契亚南部研究和教学的内陆野外站。在过去的四分之一世纪里，该站的研究项目发展了以野外种群研究为重点的研究，重点是进化、生态遗传学、种群和群落生态学、行为生理学和保护。MLBS是一个提供全方位服务的住宅设施，提供现代野外站所期望的全方位科学、教学和通信支持。该站平均每年有近7000个用户日。典型的使用者通常与家人住在一起，一次住几周到三个月不等。夏季最多可容纳100名居民，从幼儿到高中生，从课程和研究本科生到杰出的研究人员。社区的所有成员每天都在一起工作、吃饭和生活，以杰斐逊式的“学术村”的真正意义上将研究和指导结合在一起。MLBS运营收到了许多春季和秋季的使用请求，由于缺乏研究人员，家庭和各种规模的访问团体的防寒住房，这些请求无法容纳。大学在12个月的员工和扩展服务方面的新投资将提供许多必要的基础设施，使MLBS能够提供全年服务。仍然限制该站提供非夏季服务的一个关键因素是缺乏防寒住房。这笔奖金的住房改善将有助于实地站的研究和教学任务。拟议的工作将改善MLBS的物理基础设施，使其能够在时间和目标上扩大其使命。团体使用空间将允许MLBS开展新的外展计划，并为来访的班级和团体提供服务。冬季化和改进的研究空间将使其能够吸引和留住越来越多的不同的pi。